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fezmond
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:27 pm Post subject: Brits - getting married |
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Have any Brits been married since the start of this year? I've been searching and can't find anything since the UK embassy stopped giving out marriage certificates.
Mapo-Gu office told me that all we need is the affadavit to be completed/stamped and my girlfriend can have her family register checked via computer at the Gu office. Anyone gone through the process recently? I was sure we needed English translations but the officials said not (don't trust them though).
Also, when applying for an F-2 further down the line - has anyone had problems because of the UK embassy not issuing marriage certificates any more?
cheers for any help |
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oldtrafford
Joined: 12 Jan 2011
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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Have any Brits been married since the start of this year? I've been searching and can't find anything since the UK embassy stopped giving out marriage certificates.
Mapo-Gu office told me that all we need is the affadavit to be completed/stamped and my girlfriend can have her family register checked via computer at the Gu office. Anyone gone through the process recently? I was sure we needed English translations but the officials said not (don't trust them though).
Also, when applying for an F-2 further down the line - has anyone had problems because of the UK embassy not issuing marriage certificates any more?
cheers for any help
I got married last OCTOBER, no marriage certificate from Seoul, never has been. For you to get your marriage legally recognized in England you have to pay 500,000 Won. If not your marriage will not acknowledge.
You need all your wife's documents translated for the British embassy. Then you swear on the bible, and the marriageee is witnessed, and signed.
You don't need a marriage certificate to get your F2, your wife to be will take care of that with her family tree, which you will at that point be registered on at the local Gu office.
It's a painless process apart from the money and the woman you have just married!!
Good luck!!
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fezmond
Joined: 27 Oct 2008
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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cheers for the reply
i'm confused about the 500,000 won to be legally recognised in the uk - is this from the embassy?
when i checked earlier, i was told that the marriage is only valid in korea. this whole process is confusing |
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theloneleaf
Joined: 08 Aug 2011
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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I got married last OCTOBER, no marriage certificate from Seoul, never has been. |
Things have changed significantly with immigration since the first of the year. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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fezmond
Joined: 27 Oct 2008
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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already been there but the information they gave me over the phone is different to their website.
confusing as hell.  |
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oldtrafford
Joined: 12 Jan 2011
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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Instead of relying on misinformation (probably from misinformed individuals), go to the right place for information for British nationals to get married in Korea. That link is to the UK's embassy in Seoul.
I'm not informed you <mod edit>, I did this last October, Wifey's documents suffice at immigration, it's simple if they are both working in terms of getting the F2.
OP, the embassy will explain the legalities of it all when you go. You have to pay approx. 500,000 Won to get your marriage registered in England and Wales at the registrar. From the embassy sending it from Korea to blighty it takes 3/4 months, you'll get notification from the registrar saying they have received the documents. Purchasing marriagee certificate on their normal service costs ten quid Fast track was perhaps five times this amount. I bought two, we keep one here, and one in blighty. Sorry, about the dipstick above, but unfortunately we live in a country where they're are lots of idiots. It really is a piece of cake, nothing to worry about, just the dragon lady!! |
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theloneleaf
Joined: 08 Aug 2011
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not informed you idiot, I did this last October, Wifey's documents suffice at immigration, it's simple if they are both working in terms of getting the F2. |
And as I said, the process changed significantly at the beginning of this year. After you did it.
What you did before January 1, 2011 is irrelevant as there was a whole shake-up at the beginning of the year and the paperwork has changed. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0

Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:34 am Post subject: |
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My husband and I married this year. We had to go to our respective embassies (English and American) and sign affidavits, then went to the ward office (the equivalent of a city hall wedding) and sign some paperwork. After, for about 100k, he was able to have his marriage registered in the UK. Make an appointment to go to the embassy and talk to the worker in person. It's far easier. We had the whole process done by lunchtime.
That was a few months ago, and we got a letter in the post recently saying that it'd been processed and we were officially married in the UK. When we visit, we'll make sure that everything's in order, of course.
I, on the other hand, can't register my marriage until we visit the US. What a pain. |
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